Amazon recently put up an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H and RTX 2060-powered Asus TUF Gaming laptop for the remarkable price of US$1199. This undercuts i7-9750H notebooks and delivers incredible value in the sub-US$1500 price bracket.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Amazon-has-world-s-cheapest-AMD-Ryzen-7-4800H-and-RTX-2060-powered-Asus-laptop-for-pre-order-at-an-incredible-US-1199.459322.0.html
Everything is okay except for display and GPU which turned out to be max Q version. As far as display with 45% NTSC is pathetic asus. Even a 250 dollar smartphone as 84% NTSC. For this price asus should definitely give at least 84% NTSC.
aggressive pricing+better tech, desktops&servers last year, laptops now.
who wrote "cpu" over the RTX ???
It maybe a decent deal but the screen is below average and it looks ugly and cheaply built.
Can"t stress how ugly it looks.
Like the hardware but ASUS laptops generally run hot and loud, add ugly to the mix and it's a huge nope no matter how affordable it will be.
Hard pass
Ahhh whatt? 45% NTSC?
Also , while AMD CPU is fairly good for Gaming , it's not that good for devs.
Quote from: Aastra on March 29, 2020, 15:57:09
Everything is okay except for display and GPU which turned out to be max Q version. As far as display with 45% NTSC is pathetic asus. Even a 250 dollar smartphone as 84% NTSC. For this price asus should definitely give at least 84% NTSC.
Quote from: MOFO on March 29, 2020, 17:25:43
It maybe a decent deal but the screen is below average and it looks ugly and cheaply built.
Can"t stress how ugly it looks.
Like the hardware but ASUS laptops generally run hot and loud, add ugly to the mix and it's a huge nope no matter how affordable it will be.
Hard pass
Quote from: Xxx on March 29, 2020, 19:20:07
Ahhh whatt? 45% NTSC?
Also , while AMD CPU is fairly good for Gaming , it's not that good for devs.
Please tell comparable specs laptop that has at least 72% of ntsc with the same price
Also, comparing big laptop screen with smartphone's tiny screen is silly
@Xxx - Why is AMD cpu not good for devs? Generally, the issue for work has been that AMD cpus had poor single core performance, but that was before Ryzen. And with this, the single core performance of AMD is actually better than intel.
Not to mention, modern development takes much better use of multiple cores than before. So unless you are maintaining an old application, more cores is better.
QuoteThis variant is supposed to start shipping on March 30th and is at present the cheapest laptop on the market with an RTX 2060, priced closed to GTX 1650-equipped laptops.
omg stop, that 1650-equipped laptop is a high end business laptop. their selling point is unrivaled durability, not raw power like this gaming laptop.
The 2060 on this is max-q, so theoretically it performs identical to a 1660ti.
Can easily find 9750H & full-powered 2060 laptops for sub-$1200.
While this is still pretty well priced considering it's just release price and inflated by coronavirus (so we should be seeing price drop drastically in the coming months), you don't need to say such misleading things to make it look good.
Quote from: RinzImpulse on March 29, 2020, 20:12:53
Quote from: Aastra on March 29, 2020, 15:57:09
Everything is okay except for display and GPU which turned out to be max Q version. As far as display with 45% NTSC is pathetic asus. Even a 250 dollar smartphone as 84% NTSC. For this price asus should definitely give at least 84% NTSC.
Quote from: MOFO on March 29, 2020, 17:25:43
It maybe a decent deal but the screen is below average and it looks ugly and cheaply built.
Can"t stress how ugly it looks.
Like the hardware but ASUS laptops generally run hot and loud, add ugly to the mix and it's a huge nope no matter how affordable it will be.
Hard pass
Quote from: Xxx on March 29, 2020, 19:20:07
Ahhh whatt? 45% NTSC?
Also , while AMD CPU is fairly good for Gaming , it's not that good for devs.
Please tell comparable specs laptop that has at least 72% of ntsc with the same price
Also, comparing big laptop screen with smartphone's tiny screen is silly
I'm actually quite shocked it has 45% ntsc... probably the only 144hz laptop screen on the market with such poor color reproduction. Literally every other 144hz laptop has 72% ntsc.
Walmart Evoo for $1000 has a 72% ntsc display. Weaker CPU, sure, but equal GPU-wise (because the 2060 is Max Q) and $200 less.
guys, please stop the nonsense max-q is a second tier quality :(
don't understand how $1200 is cheap. rtx gpu is available much below that already, since long.
Quote from: k on March 30, 2020, 04:54:57
don't understand how $1200 is cheap. rtx gpu is available much below that already, since long.
8 cores+2060+16/1tb ssd/144hz? cheap
Quote from: william blake on March 30, 2020, 07:49:54
Quote from: k on March 30, 2020, 04:54:57
don't understand how $1200 is cheap. rtx gpu is available much below that already, since long.
8 cores+2060+16/1tb ssd/144hz? cheap
or 6 cores/1660ti (same as 2060 max q)/72% ntsc display 144hz/16gb ram/500 gb ssd for $200 less..
this is "appropriately priced", but it's by no means cheap.
Quote from: Alex554 on March 30, 2020, 09:35:53
this is "appropriately priced", but it's by no means cheap.
lowest price on the market or close to it=cheap.
you call it appropriately priced? fine. what is cheap then?
Quote from: william blake on March 30, 2020, 09:54:45
Quote from: Alex554 on March 30, 2020, 09:35:53
this is "appropriately priced", but it's by no means cheap.
lowest price on the market or close to it=cheap.
you call it appropriately priced? fine. what is cheap then?
lmfao
It's the ONLY 4800H laptop out there at the moment. Of course it's the "lowest price on the market". Because there's literally no competition rn.
And yes, I'm not counting Intel because their i9 pricing is absurd. I'm saying it's "not cheap" by AMD standards.
I will consider this laptop a big scam from Asus if display is not 3/5ms response time.
Quote from: william blake on March 30, 2020, 09:54:45
Quote from: Alex554 on March 30, 2020, 09:35:53
this is "appropriately priced", but it's by no means cheap.
lowest price on the market or close to it=cheap.
you call it appropriately priced? fine. what is cheap then?
And to answer your question, $1000 would be considered cheap. That's what China has it selling for and what it should be priced in the US as well if it weren't for these bad times.
Quote from: Alex554 on March 30, 2020, 10:47:42
lmfao
It's the ONLY 4800H laptop out there at the moment. Of course it's the "lowest price on the market". Because there's literally no competition rn.
And yes, I'm not counting Intel because their i9 pricing is absurd. I'm saying it's "not cheap" by AMD standards.
renoir>>>picasso, what a surprise.
this combination of hardware(yes we can count 8 fast cores without naming a manufacturer) is the cheapest but not cheap?
i'd better buy something more expensive to make the deal better. sounds really strange, dont you think?
Bob of all Trades on You Tube yesterday reviewed the Asus Tuf 506 Ryzen 7 4800h with gtx 1660ti, big problems with the display which he predicts many people returning the laptop.... Hopefully Asus will find a fix otherwise I'm sticking with Intel, which should see prices dropping.....
Quote from: william blake on March 30, 2020, 11:48:26
Quote from: Alex554 on March 30, 2020, 10:47:42
lmfao
It's the ONLY 4800H laptop out there at the moment. Of course it's the "lowest price on the market". Because there's literally no competition rn.
And yes, I'm not counting Intel because their i9 pricing is absurd. I'm saying it's "not cheap" by AMD standards.
renoir>>>picasso, what a surprise.
this combination of hardware(yes we can count 8 fast cores without naming a manufacturer) is the cheapest but not cheap?
i'd better buy something more expensive to make the deal better. sounds really strange, dont you think?
Is it really a better deal? You're paying $200 more for 2 more cores, but a huge downgrade in screen quality.
I don't know why you're trying to argue. $1200 is undeniably way less appealing than $1000.
According to an ASUS reply to amazon regarding this laptop the RTX 2060 is 6GB and not a 'MAX-Q'
"This model comes with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GDDR6 6GB."
Does this make a difference to all the max-q is a 1660ti replies?